HP Contract Job Trends in London

HP
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of HP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP over the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Hewlett-Packard Company.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 298 303
Rank change year-on-year -30 +5 +36
Contract jobs citing HP 63 69 96
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.40% 0.51% 0.53%
As % of the Vendors category 0.89% 1.16% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 43 67
10th Percentile £154 £164 £175
25th Percentile £166 £249 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £475 £350
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +35.71% -26.70%
75th Percentile £409 £600 £500
90th Percentile £494 £988 £596
England median daily rate £210 £400 £350
% change year-on-year -47.50% +14.29% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 2
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.09 £20.28
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.03 £20.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.66 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% +13.38% -13.00%
75th Percentile £25.77 - £23.19
90th Percentile - - £23.83
England median hourly rate £20.09 £24.18 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.91% +0.75% -4.00%

All Vendors
London

HP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,115 5,949 7,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.92% 44.19% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,694 3,746 4,941
10th Percentile £350 £319 £275
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £671
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -3.81% +0.96% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 79 143
10th Percentile £17.99 £21.50 £13.51
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.42 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% +37.25% +2.00%
75th Percentile £41.94 £61.13 £41.25
90th Percentile £66.12 £80.75 £69.60
England median hourly rate £24.00 £31.35 £26.00
% change year-on-year -23.43% +20.56% -20.00%

HP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

HP job vacancy trend in London

HP
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP in London over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for HP in London

HP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing HP

HP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP within the London region over the 6 months to 26 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +5 7 £500 +42.86% 6
West London -18 1 £475 +86.27%
HP
England

HP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.35%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (31.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (9.52%) BASE24
2 5 (7.94%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (7.94%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.59%) PORTIA
3 1 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.59%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 28 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (15.87%) Azure
3 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.17%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.17%) GCP
5 1 (1.59%) AWS
5 1 (1.59%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.59%) Rubrik
5 1 (1.59%) Tricentis Tosca
5 1 (1.59%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 23 (36.51%) Wireless
2 3 (4.76%) DNS
3 2 (3.17%) Firewall
4 1 (1.59%) DHCP
4 1 (1.59%) FTP
4 1 (1.59%) IPsec
4 1 (1.59%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.59%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.59%) SSL
4 1 (1.59%) VLAN
4 1 (1.59%) VPN
4 1 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (6.35%) OLTP
3 1 (1.59%) Big Data
3 1 (1.59%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.59%) MySQL
3 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.59%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (14.29%) JIRA
2 5 (7.94%) TestRail
3 4 (6.35%) Selenium
4 2 (3.17%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.59%) Gatling
5 1 (1.59%) JMeter
5 1 (1.59%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.59%) NeoLoad
5 1 (1.59%) NUnit
5 1 (1.59%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 21 (33.33%) Banking
2 17 (26.98%) Finance
3 11 (17.46%) Public Sector
3 11 (17.46%) Social Skills
4 9 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (12.70%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (11.11%) Electronics
6 7 (11.11%) Manufacturing
6 7 (11.11%) Marketing
6 7 (11.11%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.59%) Billing
7 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.59%) Law
7 1 (1.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (20.63%) IT Support
2 12 (19.05%) Break Fix Engineer
2 12 (19.05%) Support Engineer
3 9 (14.29%) Desktop Support
3 9 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 8 (12.70%) Field Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 7 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
5 7 (11.11%) Data Centre Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
6 6 (9.52%) Developer
6 6 (9.52%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Analyst
7 5 (7.94%) Field Support Engineer
7 5 (7.94%) Server Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Hardware Engineer
8 4 (6.35%) Junior
8 4 (6.35%) Senior
8 4 (6.35%) Server Support
8 4 (6.35%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (1.59%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.59%) Middleware
2 1 (1.59%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.59%) SOAP
2 1 (1.59%) Web Services
2 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (36.51%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.52%) Driving Licence
2 6 (9.52%) Tandem
3 5 (7.94%) EMV
4 4 (6.35%) Mobile App
5 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.59%) APACS
6 1 (1.59%) Clustering
6 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.59%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (39.68%) Mac OS
2 24 (38.10%) Android
3 14 (22.22%) Windows
4 11 (17.46%) Windows 10
5 3 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (30.16%) Break/Fix
2 16 (25.40%) Customer Service
3 11 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (14.29%) Agile
4 9 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (14.29%) ITSM
5 8 (12.70%) Test Automation
5 8 (12.70%) Test Management
5 8 (12.70%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
6 7 (11.11%) Programme Management
6 7 (11.11%) Test Strategy
6 7 (11.11%) Time Management
7 6 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (9.52%) User Experience
8 5 (7.94%) Coaching
8 5 (7.94%) DevOps
8 5 (7.94%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (7.94%) High Availability
9 4 (6.35%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.87%) SQL
2 6 (9.52%) C
3 5 (7.94%) COBOL
3 5 (7.94%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.17%) Java
5 2 (3.17%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.59%) C#
6 1 (1.59%) C++
6 1 (1.59%) Python
6 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (39.68%) Security Cleared
2 22 (34.92%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.70%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.94%) Degree
4 5 (7.94%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.59%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.59%) CCNP
6 1 (1.59%) CCSE
6 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.59%) HP APS
6 1 (1.59%) ISEB
6 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.59%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.11%) SLA
2 6 (9.52%) ISO 8583
2 6 (9.52%) QA
3 4 (6.35%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (6.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.59%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Firmware
2 1 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.59%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (17.46%) HP ALM
2 6 (9.52%) SCCM
3 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.59%) Grafana
4 1 (1.59%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.59%) PaperCut
4 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (49.21%) Dell
2 26 (41.27%) Apple
3 23 (36.51%) Cisco
4 9 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 9 (14.29%) ServiceNow
5 8 (12.70%) SAP
6 7 (11.11%) IBM
7 5 (7.94%) Remedy
8 2 (3.17%) Splunk
9 1 (1.59%) 3PAR
9 1 (1.59%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.59%) Canon
9 1 (1.59%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.59%) Meraki
9 1 (1.59%) MobileIron
9 1 (1.59%) New Relic
9 1 (1.59%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.59%) Trend Micro
9 1 (1.59%) Xerox